Reform 'trounces major parties’ in victory for Farage as speeches seen by 800k
Nigel Farage is standing in Clacton, where he is hoping to be elected to Parliament at the eighth time of asking.
Nigel Farage’s two speeches yesterday have now been watched by almost 800,000 people - with a party spokesman also claiming Reform UK was “trouncing the major parties on social media”.
Mr Farage addressed an estimated 2,100 people at campaign events in Maidstone, Kent, and Newton Abbott, Devon.
However, his reach extended well beyond that, with the spokesman saying his 40-minute speeches were watched by at least 788,000 viewers on Twitter, YouTube and other platforms.
They added: “The success underlines how the start-up Reform UK party has run rings around Labour and the Tories in the battle to reach British voters.”
On Tuesday SkyNews revealed that, despite spending a fraction of the money, Reform UK had “trounced” the major parties on social media, the spokesman continued.
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Citing web metrics firm CrowdTangle, Sky’s analysis suggested Reform’s Facebook page had more interactions than all the other parties put together.
The spokesman continued: “I think all this does is underline that Reform UK’s agenda to fix Broken Britain is engaging the public much more than the tired and discredited old lies from Labour and the Tories.
“As Nigel keeps saying ‘something is definitely happening out there’.”
Crowdtangle’s analysis suggests Labour has spent 1,743,124 in advertising, the Tories £963,478 - and Reform just £26,245.
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However, Reform has 1,547,538 social media page interactions, compared with 568,382 for the Tories and 549,378 for Labour.
Speaking in Devon, the former UKIP leader said the UK needs a new electoral system.
He declared: "This is now about whether the way we are run is representative of how we think and how we feel.
"Whether the electoral system by which we select people represents the votes as they're cast, this is now much bigger, much more ambitious than Brexit was.
"But I feel optimistic we can do a huge amount."
Mr Farage claimed politicians and the media are "more detached from you than they were even before the (Brexit) referendum".
There was nothing stopping his party from winning "a couple of seats" in the General Election, Mr Farage claimed.
He said: "Many of these seats (in the West Country) will be decided in Devon and elsewhere by literally a couple of hundred votes either way and I think you're gonna find we're in the mix.